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Practical guidance for the day-to-day work of leading a New Zealand school.
Articles in this section share how-to advice on the operational and relational aspects of principalship: navigating employment law, writing letters of expectation, talking to parents about ERO reports, enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi in school life, mentoring future leaders, and supporting equity in the classroom. Contributors are working principals, sector specialists, employment lawyers, and education consultants drawing on lived experience in New Zealand schools. Use this section to find tested approaches to common challenges, build your professional toolkit, and learn from the practice of colleagues across the country — from country schools to large urban primaries.
This year my Y10 Deans and I have spent more time than ever on student attendance – yet it feels like the harder we work the bigger the problem grows! Every week we print out a list of Y10 students whose attendance is at or below 85 per cent. 2 years ago the list fitted […]
Principal: Edendale Primary School (Southland) People are the power of a school. Who they are. What they do and equally what they know not to do. It is people that make a school. Every single person is important and has a part to play. Education is full of wonderful, others-focused people, who are willing to […]
When COVID strikes your school: communication and management strategies Reprinted with permission of ‘The Writing Room’ www.thewritingroom.nz, jenny@thewritingroom.nz Vaughan Couillault, Principal of Papatoetoe High School, shares his experience of navigating an outbreak of COVID that directly impacts a school and community. Papatoetoe High School, a co-educational year 9–13 school in South Auckland, was thrust into […]
Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020-2030 Filivaifale Jason Swann Principal – Otahuhu Primary School; President – New Zealand Pasifika Principals Association photographer Kim Gee O le ala i le pule o le tautua – the road to leadership is through service. Samoan proverb. Principalship and leadership in general, can be reflected in the Samoan proverb […]
Editor It was especially uplifting to visit Waimairi School in features of the surrounding environment. These factors, along Christchurch and see how a natural disaster was able to generate with curriculum imperatives, have become the driving force reflection on the past to guide a vision for the future. The 2011 behind the rebuild. Christchurch earthquake […]
In the beginning Te Tai Raki Kāhui Ako is located in Kamo, a small township, approximately five minutes’ drive from the Whangarei CBD. The Kāhui Ako name means ‘eyelash’, but has also been said to mean ‘to bubble up’, referring to hot springs in the area. We could also use the phrase ‘to bubble up’ […]
Editor You quickly run out of superlatives when describing Aotea Great Barrier Island. It is a place of exquisite beauty to anyone who craves peace and tranquility and yearns to escape the harsh city sounds. Located in the outer Hauraki Gulf, it offers few perceptible intrusions bar the gentle lapping of the sea and the […]
